Personally, I prefer it to be an opt-out function as I see the same issue of communicating the existence of the option in the reverse situation but with the additional considerations that went into why the feature was added to begin with; heading off issues with bot logging and the unfortunate reality that people don't know nor communicate (unintentionally or otherwise) the fine line between teasing, the unintended causing of discomfort, and plain harassment.
I agree that post-vore scening and teasing is 1) fun and 2) a function of the server's intended purpose to facilitate the theme by which we have based the server on. To that end, the consideration weighs in favor of the default as
visible. What I caution people to consider are those who tend to not have a voice for themselves until it is too late and the administration finds out about issues relating to logging from a third-party, a friend, or by a (un)happy accident.
I would much rather someone ask us explicitly, "Hey, how do I turn this off? I'm pretty comfortable with people seeing my scenes," instead of hearing weeks too late that a really nice person that everyone liked leaving because they didn't know how to turn this on or didn't know of its existence, and didn't have the courage to ask us about it or tell us that a problem happened because they didn't know about this. I find that situation, which has happened before, to be contrary to our mission to facilitate a fun and
reasonably confortable role-playing environment. For me, the opt-out side of this issue is a proactive contribution to fighting this kind of situation that is already difficult to be proactive in administratively, and while I realize that this is playing off what-ifs, it's hard to ignore the what-ifs when it historically happened in the community.
That all said, here are some things we can consider for solutions to either side of the issue:
- The traditional solution is that we make an announcement in both server and discord. However, as with many communication issues with respect to online announcements, these announcements can be buried or replaced because a new need arises and this particular issue becomes stale. We can mitigate this issue by editing the new player guide to inform users that the option exists.
- Another solution that can help is a flag that causes a message to show up only once or twice informing the user of the option. If we decide that opt-in is the direction we want to go towards, I strongly ask that we explore this option.